We’ve been making… (shop update news)

The shop update is scheduled for today, Friday, March 11, at 7 p.m. EST. I am switching things up a bit with the evening update, hoping to give some of you who can’t get to the shop in the morning a better chance at snagging yarn. I am always shocked that it all sells so quickly. That makes me a mixtures of happy, grateful, and sad for those who haven’t been able to buy any yet, and want to.

There will be a good bit of my single ply dk weight yarn listed in the shop update, in quite a few different (naturally dyed) colors. That’s because I designed a hat pattern using that yarn base a couple of months ago. I meant to have it ready much sooner, but things didn’t work out that way. Part of the reason that it took so long is that after knitting my first sample, and giving it to Larkspur, she lost it before I could take measurements and really study it (Crazy, two minutes after typing this sentence, it was found in the trunk of the car. Hooray!) Next I knit one for myself, which thankfully I still have, and then I knit one for Beatrix in that precious prickly pear yarn. She got it mixed in with her laundry and it was felted within days of being finished. “Don’t be sad, Mommy! See, I can still wear it!” (See photo below.) Definitely sad. Anyway, Seth noted that the texture of the hat reminded him of hackberry bark, so I named the hat…Hackberry! I really like this pattern and have worn the hat a ton. I am hoping that I won’t be the only one to feel that way. Jonny took some photos of me wearing mine a couple days ago for the pattern page, and when I sent it over to my friend Lori for her approval, she commented that I looked, “Serious and dignified.” I am neither, but I guess when modeling a hat, it’s good to look that way? Anyway, right now, and until the end of March, Hackberry will be a free download on Ravelry. But be warned, it hasn’t been test knit! You guys are my test knitters! I just couldn’t get my act together and figured just putting it out there at no charge for awhile might be the best thing.

Also in this shop update are lots of sets of stitch markers! Several of you mentioned Celtic crosses, so I made some sets featuring those. St. Lucy, Our Lady of Fatima, and several others are available this month as well. I LOVE making these stitch markers. I have no idea why really, but it’s deeply satisfying.

And finally, for years Jonny has been making little bird shawl pins and talking about selling them. (You can see one he made for Larkspur at the end of this post.) I think he will have a few that he made from cherry wood ready for tomorrow’s shop update. Now he can feel all nervous with me when the update goes live. 🙂

Oh, how sad; I missed it! I calcutlated the hour here in Switzerland when your shop would open and saw it would be 1 a.m here… But shortly after midnight I fell alseep … 😉 Thinking there would surely be some of your pretty things left in the early moring (at our time here in Switzerland I mean)- silly me! Your shop must be emptied only a few hours (minutes?) after opening! Amazing!
So I’ll stay tuned- for the next time 😉
There will surely be some of those stitchmarkers and a single little skein for a little hat from your pattern for me some day…
Warmly; Bora from Switzerland

What a lovely blog. I happened upon it via someone else’s blog, which linked to the Wednesday book & project KAL. I also happened to see your hat pattern on Ravelry. Well done! I will look forward to stopping in again.

Your yarn is gorgeous…makes me wish I knit. And absolutely love the shawl pins- simple but stunning. I wish I knit because I live your stitch markers too!! Hmm perhaps learning to knit needs to be in my future…

Your posts have had me wanting to learn how to knit for quite some time now… But those stitch markers! I logged into your shop just now and all that was left was one set of stitch markers. Even though I have no idea how to use them I was SO tempted to buy! I definitely need to learn before the year is over. Please keep making them! 🙂

Wow! Just barely got some stitch markers just now – I’m so happy! I totally forgot that 7pm meant EST…I’m on the west coast where that would mean 4pm. Yikes – but it worked out o.k. Hope to get the Celtic cross set next time….thanks for such beautiful stitch markers! And the lovely free hat pattern!

This may sound dumb, but if I could have any other life, I would love to do what you do! Dyeing yarn, knitting, I love it! (and yes, I realize there are hard things too, this post just makes me wishful!)

Thank you for the hat pattern. I would love to buy your stitch markers and your green yarn is so beautiful. Going to a fish fry and stations tonight. I’ll get back just after 7. Maybe I’ll get lucky. Either way I’ll keep trying. God bless you and yours.

Thank you so much for sharing the gorgeous hat pattern. Oh my goodness!!! Those bird shawl pins… Jonny!!! They are like perfect little Robins. I really hope I can buy one. You are looking great and please tell Lark she looks lovely in the Ravelry hat pictures

Ginny, thanks for the hat pattern. Love all your new things you are offering. Not sure I’ll be home in time to log on and get something, but I’ll try. I love Jonny’s bird shawl pins. You are looking beautiful as usual. How do you do that with such a house full of children?

I agree but and thinking I have to wait a few months until the plants are back. I have a few powdered natural dyes I want to try. I wish we could do it together. It would be fun. Any way, good luck with it. I bought some yarn at NY Sheep and Wool Festival last October from this man in Maine. Good luck with your sales!

The yarn, as always, is beautiful. I love the blue! And that shawl pin is so lovely. You could have a cottage industry (do you have that expression in the US?) going soon. One day I will be lucky enough to co-ordinate a yarn shop update with a visit to the US and be able to buy. I’m sure this lot will be snapped up real quick

I thought of you yesterday Ginnie. We are in Oaxaca, Mexico and visited in the mountains with a Zapotek family that makes amazing carpets. They have sheep and dye their own wool using all natural plants etc. She showed us the indigo process and we were amazed that it comes out yellow but as the wool hangs, it turns green then blue. Science magic:) That and the red ones made with little bugs off the cactus. Lovely day of learning.

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